Is Steph Curry the biggest impact to basketball since Wilt????

[Leasy]

Curry changed the game more than anyone else and it’s not even debatable. Seems like everyone forgot that there was an entire narrative that jump shooting teams couldn’t win championships until Curry & the Warriors did it in 2015. Even after winning 67 games during the regular season I vividly remember all the analyst saying that’s cool and all but let’s see how successful relying on 3’s will be during the playoffs. Now literally every team is based around the 3 ball.

Bro Steph team is the only team in my lifetime where a 10 point plus lead wasn't safe at all. I mean at all bro. The consistency of making 3pts like layups made them hard to defend. I know all of you played some form of basketball, Do you know how hard it is to defend a player like that. Shoot from anywhere

 

[get these nets]

Thank you for saying this breh. All these posts and not one person mentioned him.

The NBA allowed a form of a zone defense because the man was dominating so much. Teams would intentionally foul him just in hopes he miss free throws. The Hack-A-Shaq legit was talked about all the time (when to implement it and how well it actually works). Coaches would legit send scrubs in just to burn 6 fouls on him.

Wtf is happening to this forum? Do you young nikkas not know your history?

You're welcome

Internet is full of emotional people repeating hot takes they get from sports media. They hear it and repeat it verbatim, without forming own opinions.

 

[Rekkapryde]

The zone was a round for a little more than a decade and people had just started using it to it's full potential. Freedom of movement had been around less than a decade. The league was looking for this. Everything they have done over the last 20 years was done to encourage this. It's kinda like talking about McGwire's impact when MLB had smaller ballparks, tighter balls, lower mounds, and turned a blind eye to rampant roid use.

Indeed, but it took off when the Dubs did it and WON. But people ignore a lot of the reason why they did win with it.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Shaq changed how the NBA played him. Teams didn't change their entire rosters and players didn't change their games to emulate Shaq. They couldn't. That's not Shaq's fault but Steph has changed how basketball has been played from youth ball up to his peers.

This.

You can't emulate another Shaq. You can emulate another Steph, but emulating and getting his results is another story.

 

[get these nets]

Shaq changed how the NBA played him. Teams didn't change their entire rosters and players didn't change their games to emulate Shaq. They couldn't. That's not Shaq's fault but Steph has changed how basketball has been played from youth ball up to his peers.

Teams didn't change rosters?
How many 7 foot stiffs stayed in the league because contending teams needed big bodies to throw at Shaq if they met them in the playoffs?

 

[010101]

and won't win shyt even though copied the style. there is no Klay and Triple Single on these teams.

everyone damn near playing the same is so wack to me. I do agree that they need to move the line back. Kill the corner 3 too.

the squads that been seeing ice since gsw's run all had nikkas boomin shyte from behind the line

it's not about replicating gsw's exact style of play

it's about using the 3 as the most important weapon in hoops now

it's not going back to that post centric era ever

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[mastermind]

Yup, Kobe could have been closer to 50% plus FG shooter with ease. Take off like 3-4% due to shots. His last close to full season where he played 78 games he shot 46%.

I'm not counting that last season at 36% playing 66 games

Kobe was a great shotmaker. Those hard shots he hit at higher rate than anyone else, which made him unguardable.

 

[mastermind]

Teams didn't change rosters?
How many 7 foot stiffs stayed in the league because contending teams needed big bodies to throw at Shaq if they met them in the playoffs?

There been a lot of seven-foot stiffs in the NBA throughout its history to stop big men. This not new.

If anything, the emphasis on shooting ended the careers of Chris Dudley/Joe Wolf types.

 

[get these nets]

There been a lot of seven-foot stiffs in the NBA throughout its history to stop big men. This not new.

If anything, the emphasis on shooting ended the careers of Chris Dudley/Joe Wolf types.

Because Shaq was not a good free throw shooter, contending teams kept guys on roster strictly to get 6 fouls against Shaq.

 

[havoc]

Bro Steph team is the only team in my lifetime where a 10 point plus lead wasn't safe at all. I mean at all bro. The consistency of making 3pts like layups made them hard to defend. I know all of you played some form of basketball, Do you know how hard it is to defend a player like that. Shoot from anywhere

Yep. Steph's shot off the dribble with a quick release is a nightmare for a team's defense. It's hard to guard someone who can accurately shoot the 3-Ball from long range as soon as he crosses the half-court line. Steph didn't just change the game. He broke the NBA's defense. Teams have to constantly throw 2 or 3 guys at him and he still makes the shot. That's utterly insane

 

[mastermind]

Because Shaq was not a good free throw shooter, contending teams kept guys on roster strictly to get 6 fouls against Shaq.

This was the case before Shaq. You throw bodies at the 7 footers to tire them out. Shaq started the Hack-a-Shaq thing because of his shooting, but having many big men on a roster was not a new thing.

 

[Methodical]

Yup since Jordan.

 

[Shadow King]

nah it's clear

he shows up to lottery bound franchises & gets them ice

henny thee most impactful

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OP is talking about changing the way players after him play, not impacting a franchise. A point guard in a Karl Malone/Larry Johnson body can't be taught. In regards to raising floors and ceilings yeah I'd say Bron.

 

[Peruvian Connect]

Because Shaq was not a good free throw shooter, contending teams kept guys on roster strictly to get 6 fouls against Shaq.

Teams never went twelve deep they'd always have somebody to get fouls.....

 

[Peruvian Connect]

nah it's clear

he shows up to lottery bound franchises & gets them ice

henny thee most impactful

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this is lies.